Senator from Berkeley demands release of Melania Trump's...

1of11President Donald Trump waves to supporters as he walks the parade route with first lady Melania Trump after being sworn in at the 58th Presidential Inauguration.Photo: Pool, Getty Images

2of11Nancy Skinner answers a question during a League of Women Voters debate in 2016.Click ahead to read 10 facts about the First Lady.Photo: Michael Short, Special To The Chronicle

3of1110 facts about Melania TrumpPhoto: Chip Somodevilla, Staff

4of11Early years

Melanija Knavs was born April 26, 1970, in what was then a part of Yugoslavia, now Slovenia. Her parents, Viktor and Amalija, were a car and motorcycle dealer for the state and a children's clothing pattern maker. She has a sister and an older half-brother. She is said to be fluent in Slovene, Serbian, French, German and English.Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Staff

5of11ModelingMelanija (who later Anglicized her name to Melania Knauss) began modeling at 16. She spent a year at the University of Ljubljana. She obtained a visa to the U.S. in 1996, and although questions have been raised abotu some modeling that voilated the visa, she insists she always abided by the terms of the visa.Knauss obtained her green card in 2001 and became a citizen in 2006.In 2000, she posed nude for GQ magazine, a first for a future first lady.Photo: Getty Images

6of11RNC Speech

Melania Trump, wife of Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. She was later accused of plagiarism of a former first lady Michelle Obama's speech.Photo: Alex Wong, Getty Images

7of11Wedding

The pair were married in an Episcopal ceremony on January 22, 2005 in Florida. The new Mrs. Trump wore a $125,000 Christian Dior gown and a 13-carat diamond wedding band, shown here. Among the guests were Hillary and Bill Clinton. Donald Trump has said the couple has "never had an argument."Photo: Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images

8of11Birth

Her only child, Barron William, was born March 20, 2006 in Manhattan.Photo: Diane Bondareff, HO

9of11No. 2

She is only the second foreign-born first lady. Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, was born in England.

10of11Role

Melania Trump has said she plans to be a "traditional" first lady in the mold of Betty Ford or Jacqueline Kennedy.Photo: Courtesy RR Auction

11of11QVC

She launched a jewelry and watch lin on QVC in 2010.Photo: Mike Pont, FilmMagic

California state senator Nancy Skinner is asking the White House to release First Lady Melania Trump's immigration documents in light of the president's recent executive orders on immigration.

"No one in the Trump operation has released any of the documentation to indicate what was the circumstance, or whether she had full legal status,'' Skinner told POLITICO. "We only know they had a lawyer look at whatever papers she chose to give."

President Donald Trump's presidential approval ratings may be at an historic low, but the same can't be said for his wife and eldest daughter. A new POLITICO/Morning Consult Poll finds that voters have positive impressions of Melania and Ivanka Trump. Forty-seven percent of voters have a favorable opinion of Melania Trump, And 49 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of Ivanka Trump, The poll also finds 51 percent of voters want Melania Trump to take an active role in the president's administration, and 45 percent want the same of Ivanka Trump.

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Melania Trump, who came to New York City from Slovenia in 1996 to pursue her modeling career, was the subject of an AP investigation last November. The investigation found that she had been paid for 10 modeling jobs in the U.S. before she had legal permission to work. Her visa allowed her to be in the country and search for employment, but it did not permit paid work at that time.

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Sen. Skinner's demand comes as part of her protest against Trump's executive order on sanctuary cities. The order blocks all "federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement" to sanctuary cities.

"This executive order tries to turn cities and states into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That's against the law," Herrera said. "Cities cannot be coerced into becoming the deportation arm of the federal government."

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